Hair and refuse remover for dehairing-machines.



R. E. JORDAN.

HAIR AND REFUSE REMOVER r03 DEHMRING'MACHINES.

APPLICATION'FILED JAN. 27. 1916.

Patented Apr. 3, 19 1?.

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Patented Apr. 3, 1917.

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HAIR AND REFUSE ,REMOVER FOR DEHAIRING MACHINES. APPLICATION FILED1AN.27. 19l6.

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To whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, ROBERT E. JORDAN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and Stateof Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hairand.

Refuse Removersfor Dehairing-Machines;

and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanymg.drawings, and to the numerals of referencemarked thereon, ,which form apart of this specification. I

This invention relates to an improved type of hog dehairing machinehaving associated therewith mechanism for recovering the hair and refusescraped from the carca mes operated upon by the machine. In thisinventhe hair to a point of discharge, allowing the water to draintherefrom during the removal of the hair. V

It is also an object of this invention to construct a machine adapted todehair carcames passed therethrough and provided with mechanism toreceive the hair and refuse scraped from the carcasses and carried bythe flow of water within the machine to said mechanism, which operatesto remove said hair and refuse, allowing the water to drain therefromduring the time of removal thereof. I y b v It is furthermore an objectof this invention construct in combination with a carcass dehairingmachine mechanism to receive the hair and refuse removed from thecarcasses comprising a conveyer mov ng over a perforated partition, saidconveyer acting to sweep the hair. and refuse upwardly thereover,allowing the water to drain therefrom, finally discharging the hair andrefuse t at a convenient point. j

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It is finally an object of this invention to provlde in combination witha carcass dehalring machine means for elliciently removing the hairtaken from the carcasses from the machine. v i

The invention (in a preferred form) is illustrated in the drawings andhereinafter more fully described. a

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine embodying the principles of myinvention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged central longitudinal ection taken therethrough,with parts shown in elevation.

Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 33 of Fig. 2. I e I Fig. 4 is afragmentary top plan view of the machine with Fig. 5 is a detail sectiontaken on line 5'-5 of Flg. 4.

As shown in the drawings:

The machine consists of a long tank strucparts broken away, and v ture1, having a partition 2, extending transversely thereacross near one endthereof-affording a scalding compartment 3, on one side and on the otherside a compartment 4, within which thescraping and dehairing mechanisinsare mounted for operation upon carcasses passed through the machine. Forthis purpose rollers 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, respectively, are journaledtransversely within the compartment 4, and trained the'reover is aconveyer' 10, having lags extending transversely thereacross and spacedupwardly to afiord clearance therebeneath and acting to contact thecarcasses and thrust the same along. A

curved perforated partition wall 11, is dis- I posed near the forwardend of the conveyer beneath the same and another similarl constructedpartition wall 12, is dispose "near the otherendof said conveyor.Mounted in the scalding tank 3, and trained around rollers 13 and 14,respectively, is a small flight conveyor 15, which acts to elevatecarcasses from the scald tank over into the dehairing compartment 4. v

A pair of dehairing mechanisms for the carcasses passed through thedehairi'ng compartment 4, are provided, which as shown,

are exactly similar inconstruction and each consists of chains 16,trained about sprocket wheels 17 and 18-, respectively, said chainshaving scraper blades 19, secured thereon, and one of said pair ofdehairing mechathe partition 2,

, which the respective rollers 27, are mounted, and trainedthereaboutand about an idler nisms disposed above said conveyer 10, in positionover the curved perforated partit1on 11, and the other, over the otherparti- ,tion 12. Said respective sprocket wheels 17 m'eans'are mountedat two points beneath. the upperzflight of the t conveyer 10, as

and 18-, are mounted in 'a frame 20, which is suspended from cables21,-which are trained over sheaves 22, mounted on the top wall of thetank structure 1, said cables having secured on their endscounterweights 2.3, so. that adjusting'movements of the dehairingmechanism may take place as the carcasses pass therebeneath. Additionaldehairing roller 30, is a driving chain 31, a drive beingimparted'thereto from a drive wheel 32, secured on the" same shaft withthe-sprocket wheel 29, at the rear end of themachme. A tension carriageof any suitable construction,

denoted as a whole by thereference numeral 33, is suspended on saidchain intermediate the sprocket wheel 28, and sprocket wheel 29,

I atthe rear end of the machine to afford the requisite tension upon thechain. v The respectiveeconveyers 10 and 15,- may be driven from anysuitable-source, not shown,

but, however, are connected for simultaneous movement by a chain 34,trained about sprocket wheels 35 and'36, respectively, se-

cured upon'the shaft upon which the respective rollers ,5 and 14, aremounted,

'An auxiliary. wall 37, is built at one side a of themai'n tankstructure 1, as clearly shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5, to afiord a hairreceiving compartment, and, said compartment communicates with thecompartment 4, through narrow vertical passages 38 and'39,

respectively, disposedat each end of the 4 compartment 4, as clearlyshown in Figs. 2

and ,5; Mounted in inclined position within said hair receivingcOmpartmentviB' 'a-Perforated partition 40, with its lower end disposedadjacent the passageway 39, and itsupper end adjacent the passage 38, sothat the hair and refuse received with the water through the passage 39,may be moved upwardly on said'ipartition by a scraper conveyer 41,provided with lags 42, which move over the upper surface of saidpartition.

The chains of said scraper conveyer 41,-

are trainedabout pairs of sprocket wheels 43, 44, and 45, respectively,of which the pairs 43 and 44, are journaled above the upper edge ofthewall 37, and the latter pair 45, of which-are journaled within the lowerrear'end of the hair receiving compartment, as clearly shown in Fig. 5.A driving sprocket wheel 46, is secured upon the same shaft with thepair of sprocket wheels 43, for the purpose of imparting a drive to saidscraper conveyer 41. I

The operation is as follows:

The carcasses are introduced into the machine into the scaldingcompartment 3, and are then moved by the conveyer 15, upwardly over thepartition 2, into the dehairing compartment 4. The carcasses then rolldownwardly upon the curved'partition wall or floor 11 beneath and intothe field of operatlon'of the first group of scrapers 17, and after afew moments ofrotation therein, during which a dehairing operationproceeds, are thrust upwardly by one of the lags of the conveyer '10,over and in contact with the scraper blades 25, which move be-.

neath the carcass end, of course, clearing the upwardly spaced lag of.the conveyer -10.

The carcasses .then roll down beneath the secondgroup of scrapers at therear of the machine finally being thrust upwardly over the second groupof scraper blades 25, and discharged at the rear of the machine; In eachinstance, the respective scraper blades "25-,- movebeneath and, in fact,support the carcass which is thrust along by a conveyer lag, thelatter,.of course, being spacedup- 'wardly an-amount sufiicient topermit clearance'thereof beneath'the lags as they move thereover. Thehair and refuse removed from the carcasses is carried by the waterthrough thelong vertical passage 39, in the slde of the compartment 4,and 1s then scraped upwardly over the perforated partition 40, and to apoint of a discharge, the water of course draining through 'saidperforated partition and passing out of the hair compartment through thevertical passage 38, and back into the compartment 4. Thecirculation ofwater from the compartment 4, through the passageway 39, into thehairremoving compartment and from the hair removing compartment back throughthe passage 38, into the dehairing compartment, is induced b movement oftheconveyer 41,1ongitudinally through said hair removing compartment.

.I am aware that various details of con- .struction may be variedthrough a. wide range without departing -fromthe principles of thisinvention, and I therefore do not purpose limiting the patent grantedotherwise than necessitated by the prior art.

I claim as my invention: 1. In a device of the class described thecombination with a dehairing machine, of a compartment atone sidethereof, passageways affording communication between said resi escompartment and the interior of said machine, an inclined perforatedpartition in said compartment, and means moving thereover to receive therefuse passed into said compartment and scrape the same upwardly oversaid partition to a point of discharge.

2. The combination witha dehairing ma chine comprising a tank, of acompartment at one side thereof, passageways afi'ording communicationbetween said compartment .and the interior of the tank to permit acirculation of water therebetween, and' means in said compartment toremove the hair and retuse carried thereinto by said circulating water.

In a device of the class described'the combination with a tank of a hogdehairing machine, of a compartment at one side thereof,.meanspermitting a circulation of water between said tank and saidcompartment, a

perforated drain waterpartition in said v compartment, and means movingthereover said means to remove the hair and refuse deposited. thereon toa point of discharge.

.5. In a carcass dehai'ring machine means .to receive water circulatedtherefrom and to subscribed my return the same thereinto, and mechanismassociated with said means for removing the ham and refuse'from saidcirculating water carried 1n sald means.

6. A machine of the class described comprising a tank, a compartmentbuilt at one side thereof, an inlet to said com artment at one endthereof from said ta an outlet from said compartment at the otherendthereof into said tank, an inclined perforated means mounted within saidcompartpartment to receive'hair deposited thereon by the watercirculating from said tank into and through said compartment andreturnover said erforatedmeans to remove the hair deposlted thereon. I

7.' The combination with a hog scraping machine embodying a tank, of acompartment builtjon said tank, a passage communicating into said tankfrom one end of said compartment, another passage communicating fromsaid compartment at the other end thereof into said tank an in-' clinederforated partition mounted in said compartment between the respectivepassages leading therefrom into said tank, and

a scraper mechanism operating thereover .ing through said tank, andmeans moving to remove the hair deposited thereon to disr charge thehair from said compartment. In testimony whereof have hereunto name inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. ROBERT E. JORD. 'Witnesses':

' CHARLns, Jr.

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